Category talk:Composers

Subcategory of Influences or Supporting Cast?

Wouldn't it be better to have the "Composers" category be a subcategory of "Influences" rather than "Supporting Cast"?

-- KUR

Good thinking! A subcategory of "Influences" it is... Can we provide a space somewhere to discuss this Category / Subcategory thing? KUR Forum, perhaps? - emdebe

... but then again... There's also Ludwig van Beethoven: he was definetely a "composer", but I'm not sure he was an FZ "influence" (probably NOT)... BUT he did get his picture on the cover of We're Only In It For The Money... - emdebe

Yup

Correct, which is why the Composer's category is currently subcategorized under both Influences and Supporting Cast. For the Ludwig Von Beethoven page, you'd probably tag it under Supporting Cast and Composers. I suppose the individual composer-pages have to be looked at on a case-per-case basis AFA categorizing is concerned.

-- KUR

The Return of the Categories

Could the notion of "Favorite Composers" (the real influences) vs "Composers" (no influence whatsoever) be of any help? Same thing is going to happen with some "Musicians"... There are at least 4 sorts of musicians:

• those who played with FZ...
• those who were an influence, but never played with FZ ("Ravi Shankar")...
• those who were an influence (or at least a favorite artist), and played with FZ ("J.G. Watson")...
• those who were just mentioned for one reason or another ("Neil Young")...

Where are the trees, and where is the forest... ;-)

- emdebe